“At least five” regents requested a special meeting Thursday to reconsider the requirement, but Gov. Steve Sisolak is encouraging the board to keep the mandate intact.
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Las Vegas’ only major COVID-19 testing site experienced what officials called record-breaking demand on Sunday night, as lines caused traffic delays and hourslong waits.
Drama at the school district, a crash involving a now-former Raiders player and prominent deaths round out the list of top 10 news stories of the year.
Silver State figures who died this year include Sheldon Adelson, Siegfried Fischbacher and Leon Spinks, among others.
Clark County on Friday reported 934 new coronavirus cases and no deaths over the preceding day.
More than a dozen North Las Vegas firefighters arrived Friday with Santa in the front seat of a fire truck, delivering a huge cache of bicycles, toys and other gifts.
The U.S. government issued a call to nominate land for development within “solar energy zones” in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico that combined cover about 140 square miles.
Founding Executive Director Nancy Brune, who has led the research and policy center since 2013, will depart her post “for a new professional opportunity,” according to the University of Nevada, Reno.
A nonprofit organization paid off the mortgage for the family of late Nevada Trooper Micah May, who was killed on the job.
Clark County on Monday reported 1,379 new cases of COVID-19 and 22 deaths during the preceding three days as three of its four key metrics for the disease increased.
John Entsminger has served as general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority since 2014. He says the Colorado River isn’t in a crisis, but it is out of easy solutions.
A man had climbed to a barrier and “appeared to be wanting to jump,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Brian Boxler said.
The second case was found in Churchill County in northern Nevada and involved an unvaccinated woman in her mid-40s, according to the Nevada State Public Health Laboratory.
Icy conditions following a major winter storm closed U.S. Highway 95 in Nye County in both directions for hours early Wednesday north of Beatty before it was reopened.
The festivities began with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the renaming of the old Las Vegas City Hall chambers at the Zappos building downtown as the Tony Hsieh Theater.
